The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) joined a multiagency effort this week to improve the federal government’s ability to predict how chemicals will affect human health and the environment.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences National Toxicology Program (NTP)…
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China’s State Council has ordered central and local public health authorities to intensify their crackdown on illegal cooking oil, citing a “serious food safety risk,” Xinhua, Chinese official media reported yesterday.
In March, The China Daily and The Taipei Times reported that almost one-tenth of the country’s cooking oil…
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Last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a report on anticholingeric poisoning from the consumption of jimsonweed in July of 2008.
Jimsonweed is a plant that was historically used by American Indians for medicinal and religious purposes. It grows…
Food safety technology is going down that familiar path of making things smaller and quicker.
The latest example is found at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where a team led by Chemistry Professor John Brennan has come up with a “dipstick” to test for small amounts of pesticides in food…
